PiP 79 Featuring Matthew E. Henry

Poets in Pajamas brings you Matthew E. Henry at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) on May 10 with a 15-minute live reading immediately followed by a short Q&A. The event will be held at the PiP Facebook page.

By clicking “going” to the Facebook event, you will let us know to expect you and will ensure that you are sent a reminder, so you don’t forget. Remember to prepare your questions for the featured poet, too!

Matthew E. Henry (MEH) is a multiple Pushcart and Best of the Net nominated poet. His works are appearing or forthcoming in various publications, including Baltimore Literary Review, Bryant Literary Review, Kweli Journal, Longleaf Review, Ploughshares, The Radical Teacher, Rise Up Review, Rigorous, Rhino, Spillway, Tahoma Literary Review and 3Elements Review. The author of Teaching While Black (Main Street Rag, 2020), MEH is an educator who received his MFA from Seattle Pacific University, yet continued to spend money he didn’t have completing an MA in theology and a PhD in education. His work can be found on MEHPoeting.com.

“Station of the Cross,” 3Elements Review
“Lady Macbeth,” Longleaf Review
“etymology,” Rigorous Mag

Join us at the Poets in Pajamas Facebook page at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) on May 10, 2020. When the live video starts, click join to watch the reading and interact with the poet.

Sarah Clark will host.

This reading series is hosted courtesy of Sundress Publications.

PiP 78 Featuring Cait Weiss Orcutt

Poets in Pajamas brings you Cait Weiss Orcutt at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) on May 3 with a 15-minute live reading immediately followed by a short Q&A. The event will be held at the PiP Facebook page.

By clicking “going” to the Facebook event, you will let us know to expect you and will ensure that you are sent a reminder, so you don’t forget. Remember to prepare your questions for the featured poet, too!

Cait Weiss Orcutt’s essays and poems have appeared in Boston Review, Bust Magazine, Chautauqua, FIELD, The Pinch, The Academy of American Poets, and more. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, and Best of the Net, and her manuscript VALLEYSPEAK (Zone 3, 2017) won Zone 3 Press’ First Book Award, judged by Douglas Kearney. Cait has an MFA from The Ohio State University and is currently a PhD candidate in Poetry at the UH Creative Writing Program, where she received an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor/MD Anderson Foundation Fellowship.

“Frontier,” Boston Review
“Those Striking Shades,” Cleaver
“To the Loch Ness,” Hobart

Join us at the Poets in Pajamas Facebook page at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) on May 3, 2020. When the live video starts, click join to watch the reading and interact with the poet.

Annie McIntosh will host.

This reading series is hosted courtesy of Sundress Publications.

Pip 77 Featuring Zefyr Lisowski

Poets in Pajamas brings you Zefyr Lisowski at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) on April 26 with a 15-minute live reading immediately followed by a short Q&A. The event will be held at the PiP Facebook page.

By clicking “going” to the Facebook event, you will let us know to expect you and will ensure that you are sent a reminder, so you don’t forget. Remember to prepare your questions for the featured poet, too!

Zefyr Lisowski is the author of the Lizzie Borden grief book Blood Box (Black Lawrence Press, 2019) and an interdisciplinary Pisces. She’s a poetry co-editor at Apogee Journal and has received support from Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, Sundress Academy for the Arts, Hunter College, and elsewhere. Her work has appeared in Muzzle, DIAGRAM, Literary Hub, Nat. Brut., and more, and she’s the recipient of a 2020 Center for the Humanities Incubator Grant for Wolf Inventory, a collaborative film about ghost stories and sexual violence. Zefyr lives in Brooklyn and at zeflisowski.com.

“A Woman Is Like A Thick Fog. Stranded Landmass. Tangled Waistband. Not To Be Trusted,” Glass: A Journal of Poetry

“Girl Work,” Peach Mag
“Ghost Story,” The Shallow Ends

Join us at the Poets in Pajamas Facebook page at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) on April 26, 2020. When the live video starts, click join to watch the reading and interact with the poet.

Sarah Clark will host.

This reading series is hosted courtesy of Sundress Publications.

PiP 76 Featuring Rashaun J. Allen

Poets in Pajamas brings you Rashaun J. Allen at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) on April 19th with a 15-minute live reading immediately followed by a short Q&A. The event will be held at the PiP Facebook page.

By clicking “going” to the Facebook event, you will let us know to expect you and will ensure that you are sent a reminder, so you don’t forget. Remember to prepare your questions for the featured poet, too!

Rashaun J. Allen is the first Fulbright scholar in SUNY Stony Brook’s MFA in Creative Writing & Literature program history. He is a Vermont Studio Center and Arts, Letters, and Numbers residency recipient whose three independently published poetry collections: A Walk Through Brooklyn, In The Moment, and The Blues Cry For A Revolution became Amazon Kindle Best Sellers in African American Poetry. He has been a 2019 Tupelo Press 30/30 Project Poet, was nominated for Sundress Publication’s 2018 Best of the Net Anthology in Creative Non-Fiction, and was a 2017 Steinberg Essay Contest Finalist in Fourth Genre. His writing has appeared in TSR: The Southampton Review, Tishman Review, Rigorous, Auburn Avenue, POUi, and River Styx. Find his work at www.rashaunjallen.com.

“Family Matters,” River Styx
“A Spaceship Named Respect,” Hypertext
“Prose to the Silent Conscious Man,” Hypertext

Join us at the Poets in Pajamas Facebook page at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) on April 19, 2020. When the live video starts, click join to watch the reading and interact with the poet.

Sarah Clark will host.

This reading series is hosted courtesy of Sundress Publications.

PiP 75 Featuring Linette Reeman

Poets in Pajamas brings you Linette Reeman at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) on April 12 with a 15-minute live reading immediately followed by a short Q&A. The event will be held at the PiP Facebook page.

By clicking “going” to the Facebook event, you will let us know to expect you and will ensure that you are sent a reminder, so you don’t forget. Remember to prepare your questions for the featured poet, too!

Linette Reeman is a transsexual cryptid and interdisciplinary archivist from the Jersey Shore. They have toured and competed across so-called north amerikkka as a performance poet, including hosting the Texas Grand Slam final stage in 2017, and they have work in the 2017 Bettering American Poetry anthology. Pieces from their most recent chapbook, INVENTION OF THE MOUTH (Dream Pop Press, 2019) have been nominated for the Best of the Net and Pushcart prizes. They want to hear about your favorite bridge.

The FBI Uses My Pronouns Correctly When They Search My Apartment for Evidence, Glass Poetry
Parallel Inventions, BOAAT
I, TOO, Anomaly

Join us at the Poets in Pajamas Facebook page at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) on April 12, 2020. When the live video starts, click join to watch the reading and interact with the poet.

Sarah Clark will host.

This reading series is hosted courtesy of Sundress Publications.